A Babbling Stream of Semi-Consciousness
{ Daily Archives }
I know a little something about computers. Maybe I should volunteer to help CNN fix this persistent bug in their polling software. Time and again, their “QuickVote” polls seem to be missing at least one option. In this case, for example, where’s the “It’s none of my business” option?
I’ve been using Macintosh computers since about 1989, I think, and I’m an unabashed fan. Sometimes when I hold forth about the glories of the Mac, I see eyes rolling and resigned, weary sighs from my rapt listeners, and I wonder: Am I wrong? Am I crazy? Do I carry this thing too far?
It’s a source of comfort to me when I see something like this, from The Omni Group blog:
Michaela brought in some pillows that her friend Roberto spent the last several months crafting for her. Mac nerds can’t be content with a row of regular pillows on the couch, no, no way. Our decor needs to resemble graphical user interfaces whenever possible! Behold, Michaela’s dock in cushiony fabric form!
Or this hand-made oak clock, called the Macintock.
See? I’m not the most obsessive person in the world. Really!
Or maybe it’s just that I’m really, really lazy, and making those things looks too much like work.
The New York Times remembers Pearl Harbor with “a triumphant but mostly forgotten story of World War II“:
In 1942, Robert Trumbull, The Times’s correspondent at Pearl Harbor, detailed the salvage effort that rebuilt the Pacific Fleet after the Japanese attack. These articles did not run because of wartime censorship, and are available to the public for the first time.
The articles are in a series of PDF files, which show images of the reporter’s typed pages. There are also excerpts of Trumbull’s reports as normal web pages.